Against abiotic

The quality of air in Kathmandu valley is much lower than the national
and international standards and the occurrence of high level of PM 10 in
the atmosphere has become a major health concern. Vehicular emission
followed by road re-suspension dust, smoke and dust out of the brick kilns
are the main culprits.
It is not that there is nothing done to address this grave problem. Various GOs
and I/NGOs and private sector alike have shown their concern to address
the problem of air pollution in Nepal but they are strikingly insufficient as
compared against the magnitude and gravity of...

In case of the control period (1961-1990), the initial and the lateral boundary conditions for
the regional model are taken from (i) the ERA-40 reanalysis database (Uppala et al., 2005)
using 1° horizontal resolution, compiled by the European Centre for Medium-range
Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), and (ii) the HadCM3 ocean-atmosphere coupled GCM using
~150 km as a horizontal resolution. For the validation of the PRECIS results CRU TS
1.2 (Mitchell & Jones, 2005) datasets were used.

There are several differences between bamboo and wood. In bamboo, there are
no rays or knots, which give bamboo a far more evenly distributed stresses throughout its
length. Bamboo is a hollow tube, sometimes with thin walls, and consequently it is more
difficult to join bamboo than pieces of wood. Bamboo does not contain the same
chemical extractives as wood, and can therefore be glued very well [Jassen 1995].

Results in this year’s report are not comparable to results in previous editions, because a new procedure
was used to weight the final data set. The new weighting procedure, which is described in the Technical
Notes, was used to adjust for the lack of respondents who use only cell phones and not landline phones.
The reader should not compare results in the Wisconsin Health Insurance Coverage 2007 report with
results in this report. Comparisons of 2007 and 2008 results presented in this report (in the Key Findings
and elsewhere) were made with a re-weighted version of...

It is possible also that sprezzatura may be set in an organisational context. In terms of
modern imagery within organisations, there may be similarities of context between a sixteenth
century court and a twenty first century court, or organisation. In external terms, the version
today lacks the overt ostentation of the earlier one in terms of furnishings, dress and ceremonials.

Prior to the 2010 renegotiation of the SRA, some observers argued that the reimbursement rate
should be pegged to something other than premium value, such as the number of policies sold, to
better reflect actual costs and to help reduce federal expenditures. If premiums are actuarially
sound, the administrative costs of writing a policy are likely not proportional to the value of the
policy (e.g., whether 10 acres or 1,000 acres, or $3 per bushel or $9 per bushel).

Most certainly, Latinas are facing a serious health care crisis that threatens to undermine the reproductive health and
overall well-being of themselves, their families and their communities. Despite the growing number of uninsured Latinas
and the signiﬁcant health disparities they face, health policy makers have paid little attention to the reproductive health
needs of Latinas. Against this backdrop, we are also witnessing an onslaught of attacks on the reproductive freedom of
women in this country that will no doubt disproportionately impact Latinas.

If you are eligible to deduct charitable contributions
for federal income tax purposes (see Qualifying for
a Tax Deduction later) and you want to claim a
deduction for donating your vehicle to charity, then
you should make certain that the charity is a qualified
organization. Otherwise, your donation will not be
tax deductible. The most common types of qualified
organizations are section 501(c)(3) organizations, such
as charitable, educational, or religious organizations.
This publication refers to section 501(c)(3) organizations
generally as “charities.” ...

however, even with tested, low-cost solutions for maternal
and neonatal health available, mothers and infants die
needlessly. every year, more than 500,000 women die from
complications of pregnancy and childbirth, and many more
are permanently disabled.
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even when infants survive, their
chance for a healthy and productive life is much diminished
by the death or disability of the mother.

Concurrent treatment of source area saturated and unsaturated zones usually
requires the integration of chemical oxidation with other remedial technologies that
target unsaturated zone contamination (e.g., soil vapor extraction). Frequently,
soil vapor extraction, which is used to treat the unsaturated zone, is included as a
component of chemical oxidation remedial solutions even if there is no specific
need to treat unsaturated soils in the source area.

Regioregular polythiophene-based conductive copolymers with highly crystalline nanostructures are shown to hold considerable promise as
the active layer in volatile organic compound (VOC) chemresistor sensors. While the regioregular polythiophene polymer chain provides a
charge conduction path, its chemical sensing selectivity and sensitivity can be altered either by incorporating a second polymer to form a
block copolymer or by making a random copolymer of polythiophene with different alkyl side chains.

For the banking group as a whole, costs of doing business may be lower under the
branch structure than under the subsidiary structure. Maintaining greater self-
sufficiency of affiliates in a subsidiary structure requires that each affiliate hold higher
capital and liquidity buffers to limit the likelihood of failure. This results in higher
levels of capital and funding for the banking group as a whole than under the branch
structure.

There are a vast number of technologies and practices that can be employed to reduce
GHG emissions for the purpose of generating offsets. In addition, GHG emissions can be
offset through certain kinds of land use and forestry practices that remove CO2 from the
atmosphere. According to a survey from 2006, projects involving land use and forestry
practices are in fact the most common type being funded by voluntary offset purchases.
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The next most common type of project involves renewable energy production, followed
by demand-side energy efficiency improvements (Table 1).

Since the early 1970s, a variety of issues relating to energy supply have disrupted the energy
marketplace. The oil crises of the 1970s, the deregulation of electricity and gas markets, the
ebb and flow of various conflicts in the Middle East, Y2K fears, air-quality concerns, the
recognition of global warming, and California’s recent energy supply woes are just some of
the events and concerns that have affected both consumer perceptions and market prices.

There are also institutional issues to resolve. A path-dependent technology pattern has
developed in the energy field that encourages the current centralized generation model of
energy supply. When shifting away the capital investments in technology from centrally
planned facilities toward distributed generation, renewable energy technologies and their
prospective customers must fight against a tide of perceptions, practices, and market
structures designed to facilitate the old central-station ways.

This year’s edition of the Arab Media Outlook builds upon the foundations of
the previous two editions and deals with some significant extra material. It
includes coverage of three additional markets and, for the first time, it gives
a detailed analysis of consumer habits and trends in four selected markets. It
also provides projections for the local advertising industry over the period 2009-
2013, across all major media platforms and the 15 countries considered.

In its first part, the survey explored and highlighted the gender gap in social media usage in the Arab world. Given the
sizable difference in percentage of male and female users in the region (the latter constituting only a third of Facebook
users)
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, respondents were asked to identify the main barriers that they perceived were holding back Arab women from
fully utilizing social media. The largest of these barriers was identified as the societal and cultural constraints placed on
women in the Arab world.

A higher-risk CMO tranche could, for example, have an average life that changes from 2 years to
20 years with even a modest increase in interest rates. Higher risk refers here to the cash flow
variability of the tranche, not its credit quality, although underwriters can create structured
securities that combine higher average life sensitivity with lower credit quality.
The highest yields go to those tranches that, by design, exhibit the most volatile average lives.
Such tranches receive excess principal cash when prepayments rise, and pay off early.